Hi Sebastien, you may need two views to do what you want.  If you want a list of all restaurants in a delivery area, regardless of type, but you also want a list of restaurants of a given type, regardless of area, you need two views.  A _design document can have multiple views, and they are updated simultaneously.  Best,

Adam

On Nov 20, 2009, at 10:27 AM, Sebastien PASTOR wrote:

> Thanks for the quick reply Matt,
> 
> It does sound like a trick because it might generate a much bigger list
> than i ll have document in the db (times number of delivery areas). But
> i guess as long as the map index  is generated only once it will just be
> a matter of more space used to store the index right?
> I guess this is how things should be
> handled when using couchDB, not obvious when coming from SQL :)
> At least it works exactly as expected.One little thing that bugs me is that the reduce function returns :
> 
> {"rows":[
> {"key":[75010,"indian"],"value":1},
> {"key":[75010,"italian"],"value":2},
> {"key":[75010,"japanese"],"value":1}
> ]}
> 
> If i want to return only restaurant type and the number of
> restaurants
> Something like :
> {"key":"italian","value":1},
> 
> Is it something to could/should be done in Lists or in some way in the
> reduce function ?
> 
> Thanks again !
> 
> Sebastien
> 
> On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 12:15:59PM +0000, Matt Goodall wrote:
>> 2009/11/20 Sebastien PASTOR <sebastien.pastor@gmx.com>:
>>> Sorry for the previous blank mail ... here is the content :
>>> 
>>> Hi there,
>>> 
>>> Pretty new to couchDB. I ve read a lot about couchdb and finally dive
>>> into it with a small project :)
>>> I am trying to do a simple thing and i am not sure at all if i am going
>>> the right way :
>>> 
>>> my docs look like this :
>>> 
>>> {
>>> ??"name":"Pizza Torino",
>>> ?? "delivery_areas":[75019,75018,75012,75013,75010],
>>> ?? ?? "type":"italian"
>>> ?? ?? }
>>> 
>>> ?? ?? I managed to get ??all shops by type and get a reduce function to
>>> ?? ?? do the sum ( not much i know but still quite an accomplishment for
>>> ?? ?? me :) )
>>> ?? ?? I then tried to get my result filtered by delivery_areas. as in
>>> ?? ?? getting only shop
>>> ?? ?? that do delivery in postal code 75019. I just could not ??have
>>> ?? ?? anything that
>>> ?? ?? worked using startkey and endkey ... is it the way to go or is
>>> ?? ?? storing
>>> ?? ?? delivery_areas within an array not right ?
>>> 
>>> ?? ?? my last map function looks like this :
>>> ?? ?? ?? ?? "getShops" : {
>>> ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ??"map" : "function(doc){
>>> ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? emit([doc.delivery_areas,doc.type],doc.name)
>>> ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? }
>>> ?? ?? }
>>> 
>>> ??Thanks for pointing me to the right direction
>> 
>> Storing a list of delivery areas is good. The "trick" is to emit
>> multiple rows per document, e.g.
>> 
>>    function(doc) {
>>      for each (area in doc.delivery_areas) {
>>        emit([area, doc.type], doc.name);
>>      }
>>    }
>> 
>> You can then query with startkey=[75018, null] and endkey=[75018, {}]
>> to get all restaurants in the 75018 area.
>> 
>> The null and {} might look a bit weird at first but it's all to do
>> with how CouchDB orders rows in a view. See
>> http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/View_collation#Collation_Specification
>> for details.
>> 
>> Hope this helps.
>> 
>> - Matt